Drew's Dungeon

  Throughout this letter by Richard Branson, the author guides the reader to a better life and helps the reader be able to find true happiness. Branson does this by using deeper linguistic choices, choosing effective form to get a grasp of his audience, maintaining a strong tone to reach out and speak to his audience throughout the letter, and many other factors that accomplish his main objective of bringing the audience more happiness in their lives.  The form of this piece of literature is a letter. It starts with “Dear Stranger,” and ends with “Happy regards”. The opening “Dear Stranger” accomplishes two things; it makes the audience feel directly communicated with, while it also applies to everyone in the world which makes the advice given universal. A letter is very personalized and usually meant for just one person to read. With such a serious topic at hand, the author precisely picked the right form of writing to connect with the audience. Since the writer is a famous e...

  PART 1: 4/19/22 President Of France (Before we start the letter, I want to inform readers of my blog that there are some parts of the Amazon that are owned by France) Dear Mr./Ms./Mrs. President of France,  Wildfires are very common all over the world and inhabitants of the world tend to neglect attention to them. Even though many people rushed to raise money for the Notre-Dame cathedral that was burnt in a fire, many have blatantly ignored the raging fire that is going on in the Amazon Forest. Parts of the Amazon are owned by France so this ignorance is happening on your soil. This doesn’t only affect all the wildlife, villages, and nature found in the forest. Around 20% of all the oxygen on earth comes from this forest and having it burn down would be detrimental to the Earth we live in as we know it. The Amazon Forest is the heart that keeps all of us breathing pure air. I am writing this letter to try to push you to make a difference and save this beautiful forest. Not o...

  In this text, Raina is a child that is 5 years old speaking with her mother while being outside. Children that are ages 3-5 are considered “preschoolers” and are considered to be advanced in English compared to younger children, but still learning how to properly structure sentences and how to implement grammar in everyday language. It is fairly obvious while reading the text excerpt that this child’s language capabilities shown in the transcript are accurately portrayed for the age of a developmental 5 years old.  First of all, Raina’s language is pretty typical for a 5 year old; pretty advanced and easily comprehensible, but sprinkled with some misuses of words. Throughout the text, approximately two times, Raina uses the word “this” instead of “that” while referring to a certain thing. For example, she asks her mother “can we go in this field?” while she’s not even close by the field (indicated by her wanting to skip over to the described field). The proper way to exp...

  Throughout time, not only the English language, but many languages have changed and evolved. This text is a very good example of the change throughout the years. At face value, older text might seem identical to something that would be written in modern day English literature, but there are a lot of discerning factors that play into the variation between this text and modern English. First of all, the structure in text A is very unique from the currently used English structure. The sentence structure is very long and descriptive. For example, “You will, I am sure, my dear nephew, take it in good part, if I point out a few of the conversational faults, of which young men are apt to be guilty.” A noticeable characteristic of the sentence is the overuse of commas that turn the sentence into a run on sentence. Another thing that these commas accomplish is breaking up the speaking pattern. While modern day English speakers may break up their speech while speaking, the majority of writ...